Axle-spindle and bearing



(No Model.)

0. V. MOORE.

AXLE SPINDLB AND BEARING.

No. 388,214. Patented Aug. 21, 1888.

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IN VEN TOR ATTORNEYS.

WITNESSES %{%m' CHARLES V. MOORE, OF FAIRMOUNT, INDIANA.

AXLE-SPINDLE AND BEARING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,214, dated August 21, 1888.

Application filed September 20, 1887. Serial No. 250,183.

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES V. Moons, of Fairmount, in the county of Grant and State of Indiana, have invented a new and Improved Vehicle-Spindle and Bearing, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved vehielespindle which fits always snuglyin the bearing, thus causing the wheel to last much longer and preventing all noise by the spindle, as there is no play whatever in the bearing.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of various parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of myimprovement. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the same on the line as x of Fig. 1. Figs. 3and 4 are sectional views of the same, taken, respectively, on the lines 3 y and z z of Fig. 2.

The axle A is provided near each end with a collar, B, from which extends the conical spindle O, carrying the rod 1), which is screwthreaded on its outer end. The collar B fits into a corresponding recess, E, formed on the inner end of the bearing F, and the conical spindle (1 fits into a correspondiugly-shaped opening, G, in the said bearing F. The rod 1) passes through the sleeve II, formed into a conical shape on its outside, and which latter fits into a siniilarly-shaped opening, G, in the bearing F. The sleeve It extends with its small end to within a short distance of the small end of the conical spindle G, and the openings G and (.l are similarly formed, flaring outwardly from about the middle of the bearing F.

Near the outer end of the rod D is formed a groove, I, into which extends the pin J, secured to the sleeve 11', so that the latter is prevented from turning on the rod 1). On the outer threaded end of the rod D screws the nut K, extending into a recess formed on the enlarged end L of the sleeve II, the said end L abutting against the outer end of the bear- (No model.)

ing F. On the nut K is formed an annular recess, N, through which pass the pins 0 0, held in the end L of the sleeve H, so as to hold the nut in the sleeve for convenience when removing the wheel. The bearing F is secured in the usual manner to the hub of the wheel.

It will be seen that the sleeve H is held in a snug position in the opening G of the bearing F by the nut K, and all wear on the said sleeve and spindle U is taken up by adjusting the said nut K on the threaded end of the rod D, extending from the spindle 0. Thus it will be seen that the spindle always fits its bearing F, thereby avoiding all play, whereby the wheel lasts much longer, as play on the spindle in its bearing permits the wheel to yield by its load, in consequence of which the spokes of the wheel are loosened in the hub or in the rim, or the latter is split. \Vhen the wheel runs true, as it does with my improvement, the load of the wagon rests perpendicularly on the wheel, and consequently presses with less strain on the wheel than if the latter had play.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a conical spindle provided with the reduced portion D, of the sleeve II, locked to the reduced end of the spindle, to turn therewith, and provided with an enlarged and apertured end, L, the nut K, screwed on the end of the reduced portion of the spindle, and provided with recess N, and the pins 0 in the recess N and apertures of the end L of the sleeve II, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. In a vehiclespi ndle and bearing, the combi nation, with the bearing F, having the out wardly-flaring openings G G, of the spindle 0, having the reduced portion 1), screwthreaded at its outer end and provided with the groove I, the sleeve H, having the enlarged end L and provided with the pin .I, the nut K, having the annular recess N, and the pins 0, substantially as herein shown and described.

OIIA ItIJlCS V. MOORE.

Witnesses:

JOHN F. J ONES, \V. A. BROWN. 

